re: Wheel of Time - Season 1 - ABSOLUTELY NO BOOK READERS AT ALL

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Mat is just a dick. Don't know how anyone likes him.

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literally Matt all serious and it awesome

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out of nostalgia for the books.

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if you read the books get the frick out

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as a reader

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rule get out

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If Moraine is exiled because she refused to divulge info on what she was doing with these kids (and at least the 2 girls both have shown signs of using magic), I find it hard to believe nobody prevents them from leaving with her. I mean, wasn't that kind of her crime to begin with?

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She was exiled for refusing to divulge info on where she’s been. I’m pretty sure the entire reason she wouldn’t say where she had been was because she didn’t want any attention to turn to the kids.

Nynaeve was the only one who was on the Aes Sedai radar, so to speak, because of what she did during the fight with Logain. So she was probably the only one that really had to sneak out.

Also I’m pretty sure they didn’t leave with her. I thought that they all left separately during the whole spectacle of her being exiled. But I might be misremembering.

All I’ll say and then follow my own rules, of all of the MASSIVE details that you guys don’t talk about at all, all of the small things certain characters have said that you don’t talk about…

You’re worried about how they snuck out of the city? That is something that truly doesn’t matter at all.

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You’re worried about how they snuck out of the city?

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We're not worried about it, we're focused on it because that's where the show put our attention. They made a big deal about it and didn't then it didn't seem like a big deal.

I'm sure in the book they showed the entire picture and there were a few hoops to jump through to get everyone out of the city. But this episode the major thing happening was Moraine scheming to control a situation where she was being attacked from all sides. And that part was interesting. Then they yada yadaed over some of the details that should have been there so those missing details are what we're focusing on, even if they're unimportant in the big picture. It may be stupid but we haven't read the books and can only go where the show leads us.

This is probably something we'll just have to deal with for this show. I've read some interviews from the showrunner and he said he has been limited by cutting of episodes (originally 10 but now 8) and budgetary constraints.

If they Captain Planet this thing and make all of them partial dragons I'm gonna have to bail. That would be the quickest way to lose me as a growing fan.

I guess you didn’t actually read the books after all.

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I guess you didn’t actually read the books after all.

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I feel for you, Fun Bunch. I truly do.

It's clear you love those books, and you were super-pumped about this show. I've not read them, but it's a title I recognize (and to clarify: I really haven't read much in the past couple decades, what with family and life needing so much of my time. So to recognize a title when I'm out of the market, I'm sure it's quite good).

I don't think this is the show you were expecting. It may well be able to gain some footing, and start rolling in the future; I don't know. But as of now, I've yet to find much of anything to get excited about.

I'm holding on because I hear the source material is good, but this is NOT must-see for me as of now. Just for episodic enjoyment and anticipation of next episode, Hawkeye is blowing it out of the water. It's not genre-bias, I enjoy fantasy as much as sci-fi or 'comic book superheroes'. But this is just so loose and uneven, to the point where it's both boring and confusing at the same time, lots of times. I can handle one of those, as long as the other is missing: confusing but interesting, or building a good story without any action going on of note- both can be fine for awhile.

There are brief moments where you can see they are trying to inspire something with camera angles, but they're not conveying things at a high rate right now. The knowledgeable reader might be able to interpret something and know it's going somewhere, but the uninformed viewer is having a hard time slogging through and finding something worth following.

Episodes 1-5: We have to get these kids to the White Tower!
Episode 6: We have to get these kids out of the White Tower!